With its communal green, reading rooms, historic pub, 350-year-old farmhouses, cricket club and folk dancing troupe, Hawk Green is a quintessential English village
John Goose casts an eye over an immaculately-kept flower box on the village green, put in place in memory of those who lost their lives during the covid pandemic. "I'll have to come down later with a bucket and give it a wipe," he says looking disapprovingly at a small streak of dirt on the planter.
Soon after local businessman Robert Shepley built Shepley Mill, a steam-powered cotton spinning and weaving mill, on the east bank of the canal. Terraced cottages to house the hundreds of workers were also constructed at Barnsfold Road, Hazel View and Rhodes Houses. "I did not appreciate the place until my later years, I simply took it for granted. Now I realise just how singular it is in many ways."
It was thought to be the only place in the north of England where cricket was played on the actual village green. On Upper Hibbert Lane stands Hawk Green Reading Room, built in 1906 for the use of the workers at Goyt Mill. "It's a very relaxing and friendly place to come," she said. "People here are very sympathetic. We help each other and share our problems."
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